Book Release: मिलना था इत्तिफ़ाक़

The book is published through Kindle Direct Publishing and is free for kindle unlimited. The same will also be free for August 15, 2018. Grab your copy while you can. It is a contemporary fiction short story, with less than a hundred pages. Please refer to my page for more details. Synopsis: अस्मारा ख़ान शहर इंदौर…

Getting artsy again

Long time with crafty posts. I’m swamped with work these days. To add to that, I’m busy working on two novels and a couple of short stories in parallel. Then there is promotion activities for published books. But all of that aside, I need to be ready for Eid-ul-Adha. And I thought of receiving an…

Episode 1: Coke Studio Season 11

  Disclaimer: This review is an opinion of a music listener. I have no musical background or technical expertise. If anybody disagrees with anything in this post… well, they will have to live with it. I can’t help them 🙂 First thing I noticed is the change in the set. The set has more shades…

Book Preview: Bichhadna Naseeb Thha (Urdu Edition)

If you’re interested in getting a free pdf to review, please email me, or IM me on Goodreads or Facebook. I have published my Urdu story ‘Bichhadna Naseeb Thha’ on Google Books and it is available for free today. If the excerpts hold your attention and you want to read this book, you can download…

What is the worst part of your job?

I will share mine. Others can comment. On a particular day, even if I need to take off for being unwell, I can’t. Because the deadlines are so freakin’ stringent that I have to be in office, even if that means that i am sneezing and coughing into others’ space, and my nose is dripping…

Social Media Presence

I had this guy leave me a voice mail at work so I called him at home and then he e-mailed me to my Blackberry and so I texted to his cell and then he e-mailed me to my home account and the whole thing just got out of control. And I miss the days…

I miss my books

Have you ever regretted something you’ve done? Of course, who hasn’t. Last year, I gave away two bags full of books to the neighbourhood library. I had a good collection of Sydney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer books. And some desi authors. Well almost all of them were Archer. I now regret it. I don’t regret…

Turning a year older

How do I feel? Ecstatic, for a change. For past few birthdays (seven to be precise), I don’t really feel anything. Well, maybe a little bit of sadness that I have not achieved as much as I had dreamt of. This year I feel different. I have finally started writing. I have finally gathered the…

Book Preview: The Farewell Gift (Urdu Edition)

If you’re interested in getting a free pdf to review, please email me, or IM me on Goodreads or Facebook. Synopsis:  مناف، احید اور عاصمہ تین ماہ قبل  ہی ایک دوسرے سے ملے تھے،جب وہ شیفیلڈ شارٹ ٹرم اسائنمنٹ پر آئے تھے۔ بہت کم وقت میں ان کی دوستی بہت گہری ہوگئی تھی۔   ایک چھوٹی سی کہانی اس دن…